Damali Abrams

Damali Abrams (born in Guyana[1]) is a Guyanese-American video-performance artist who lives and works in New York City. She is known for the Self-Help TV, an ongoing video-performance project using her own body to examine issues of self-improvement, race, class and gender.

Damali Abrams
Born
Guyana
NationalityGuyanese American
EducationNew York University; Vermont College of Fine Arts
StyleVideo art

Career

Abrams graduated New York University as a Bachelor of Arts in 2001 and obtained a master's degree in fine arts from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2008. Her work has been exhibited at galleries including The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art (MoCADA), El Museo del Barrio, A.I.R. Gallery, BRIC Rotunda Gallery and the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning.[2]

Teaching and workshops

Abrams has led classes at Barbados Community College, the Grenada National Museum, the Borough of Manhattan Community College, Hunter College School of Social Work, SUNY Purchase, Syracuse University’s 601 Tully and at NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering.[3]

Awards
  • 2009–10: A.I.R. Fellowship Recipient[4]

Residencies
  • July 2014: Apexart’s Outbound Residency to Seoul[5]
  • 2014: Artist in Residence at The Center for Book Arts[6]
  • October 2013: Residency with Groundation Grenada and Fresh Milk in Barbados[7]
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gollark: I have relatively okay quality of life and don't need to worry about food and water significantly, can (if I am actually motivated to do so) learn about a myriad of interesting topics due to internet, and have access to basically all entertainment media in existence.
gollark: I would very much dislike this, myself.
gollark: Communication with gollark is axiomatically a net positive, however.
gollark: Also... the existence of computers.

References
  1. "Damali Abrams". Blouin Art Info. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  2. "Damali Abrams Exhibitions". Art Slant. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  3. "apexart". Damali Abrams Residency. Archived from the original on 10 July 2014. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  4. "Damali Abrams, Autobiography Of A Year" (PDF). A.I.R. Gallery. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 December 2014. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  5. "apexart". Damali Abrams Fellowship. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  6. "Artists in Residence". Center for Book Arts. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  7. "Fresh Milk and Groundation Grenada Welcome Damali Abrams". Arc the Magazine. Retrieved 12 April 2015.



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